Measure for boots or shoes



\ (2.11. GUSHMAN. Measure for Boots or Shoes.

-No. 225,210. Patented Mar. 9, 1880.

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NFD'ERS. PHOTD-LIYHOGRAPHER, WASNINGTON. B. C.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. GUS'HMAN, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

MEASURE FOR BOOTS'OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,210, dated March 9,1880.

Application filed October 9, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE H. CUSHMAN, ofLynn, of the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and use ful Improvement in Measures for Boots and Shoes; andI dohereby declare the same to be described in the following specificationand represented in the accompanying drawing, which is a top view or planof a shoe-measure embodying my invention.

The said measure is to be made of paper or other suitable sheetmaterial; and it consists of a. base or sole-contour plate, a heel postor projection, and three series of straps extending from such base-plateand heel-post, in manner substantially as represented.

In the drawing, A denotes the rectangular or base plate, and B theflexible heel-post, the latter being extended from the middle of one endof such plate.

Projecting in opposite directions from the said base-plate, in manner asshown, is a set of six or other suitable number of straps, O G O 0 C O,and in like manner there extends from the heel-post another set, D D E'EE E, of like straps.

Each of the straps O D E has a slot, a, made through it near its outerend, and there is' arranged with and projects into such slot, in manneras represented, a metallic point or catch, 11. In order to provide eachof the said straps O D E with such points, 1 fold the strap back nearits end and place between the two parts ,of the strap a triangular pieceof metal, and

secure it in place by paste or cement or other suitable means, andsubsequently form the slot through the parts of the strap that may befolded and cemented together. Each baseplate strap I usually extend intothe base-plate in manner as shown.

In using the measure to ascertain, for the making of a shoe, thedimensions of a persons foot and the lower part of the leg immediatelyabove the foot, the base-plate is to rest on afioor. or on a suitableflat surface, and the heel-post is to be turned up to a right angle, orthereabout, with such plate. The foot to be measured is next to beplaced on the base-plate and with the heel against the heel-post. Thishaving been done, an attendant, with a point or pencil, is to mark onthe base'plate the outline of the foot, and to turn up over and on the,footthe straps of the base-plate and insert each of them on one side ofthe plate through its fellow of the other side thereof. The person is todraw the straps with proper tension on the foot, and while they are sodrawn he is to insert the point of each slotted strap in the fellowstrap, so .as to couple or buckle the two straps together.

The fellow straps of the heel part are to be similarly applied to theleg and buckled or connected together, those at the base of the heelpart, or at its junction with the base-plate, being extended obliquelyabout the foot from the heel up to the vertex of the angle of the instepand leg. On unbuckling or disconnecting the straps the measures willthus have been taken for the making of a shoe or boot to fitto the foot,as the holes made by the points will indicate where the points are to beinserted for the straps to determine the size of a last to correspond tothat of the foot.

The straps may be Without the means described for buckling themtogether, in which case, when those of each pair are drawn about thefoot, they may be marked, notched, or punctured to indicate how theysubsequently are to be arranged with each other.

My invention, though in some respects like the measuring apparatusdescribed in the United States Patent No. 33,307, dated September 17,1861, differs in others materially therefrom-that is to say, my measurehas a device upon which the entire contour of the sole or edge of thefoot can be marked with a pencil, and it also has, to what I term thepost B, the series of leg-measuring straps E E, in addition to the pairD D of straps to measure around the foot from the heel to the upper partof the instep, such enabling me to obtain what cannot be accomplished bythe apparatus of the said patentviz., the contour of the sole and themeasure of the lower portiou of the leg just above the ankle.Furthermore, in my measure the straps of the solecontour plate projectwithin, and are formed in part from, such plate, in manner asrepresented, in order that they may be properly turned up around thefoot without bending the plate upward to interfere with the propermarking out thereon of the sole-contour.

I claim as my invention 1. The improved shoe measure, substantially asdescribed, consisting of the sole-contour-measuring base-plate and itsfoot-measuring straps, and the heel-post and its foot and leg measuringstraps, all being arranged to operate in manner and. for use asdescribed.

2. The sole-measuring plate provided with 10 the heel-post and itsstraps, and having footmeasuring straps formed in part from and eX-tending within it, (the said sole measuring p1ate,) substantially inmanner as represented.

GEO. H. OUSHMAN.

Witnesses:

B. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER.

